This is a submission for the World's Largest Hackathon Writing Challenge: Beyond the Code.
When I joined the World's Largest Hackathon, I was thinking: “Cool, I’ll build a little recipe app.” What actually happened? I ended up pulling late-night coding marathons, becoming best friends with Bolt (my AI copilot), and discovering an amazing global community of builders just like me.
What made this hackathon feel like a team sport (even solo):
- Bolt.new, my 24/7 coding buddy — From tricky logic to naming variables like “authTokenThatActuallyWorksThisTime”, Bolt had my back. No judgment. Just solutions.
- @addyosmani , you're a legend — Your tweet pulled me into this whole wild ride. I owe you coffee.
- IRL MVPs — My friends cheered me on like I was in the finals of Iron Chef... except I was cooking up JSX and Tailwind classes.
- Devpost + Discord = 💯 vibes — Every announcement felt like a hype squad cheering me on. Even when I broke the build. Again.
- "Wait, I just built that?!" moments — Integrating RevenueCat + Supabase + Netlify with edge functions, subscriptions, gated logic… me one month ago wouldn’t believe it.
TL;DR
This hackathon gave me way more than an app. It gave me confidence, growth, and a weird obsession with improving UX.
I shipped something real. I met cool people. And I proved to myself that I could do hard things—with a side of fun and caffeine.
Catch you at the next one 🚀
— Dmitriy
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